Exotel is an advanced customer engagement platform that combines CPaaS, omnichannel contact centers, and Conversational AI. The platform is designed to foster richer, AI-powered, and contextual interactions, offering businesses unparalleled speed and scale in their communications.
$200
5 months Validity
SendBird
Score 8.9 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
SendBird is a packaged messaging-as-a-service that is designed to help developers build and manage messaging function in less than 5 minutes.
SendBird says it strives to build the whole messaging SDK and backend from the scratch to help developers save time and resources in order to allow them to focus on making apps and services more engaging. SendBird allows mobile developers to easily attach 1-on-1 messaging and group chat to their application. The developer kit also comes with…
$0
Up to 1,000 chat MAU
Pricing
Exotel
SendBird
Editions & Modules
Dabbler
$200
5 months Validity
Believer
$500
11 months Validity
Influencer
$1000
11 months Validity
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Free
$0
Up to 1,000 chat MAU
SPROUT
$49
Up to 10,000 chat MAU
TREE
$149
Up to 30,000 chat MAU, Broadcasting message is available
PARK
$499
Up to 100,000 chat MAU, Broadcasting message is available
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Exotel
SendBird
Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
No setup fee
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We offer Free plan but your Chat MAU will be limited to your service 1,000 and you’ll be limited to send only test broadcasting messages.
Q. How is the Chat MAU calculated?
A. Chat MAU (monthly active user) is calculated as any user who has sent or received a messaging data using SendBird platform during 30 days.
Q. What happens if my app’s popularity explodes and I go beyond the Chat MAU quota?
A. We don't have hard ceilings to prevent the Chat MAU rate from exceeding the pricing plan's quota (except for with the Sandbox option), but you will be charged for additional users beyond the stated limit.
If your app exceeds the Chat MAU quota, you will be charged $0.012/user with Sprout pricing, $0.011/user with Tree pricing, $0.010/user with Park pricing, and even lower with Enterprise pricing.
Q. Can I change the credit card information to another one?
A. You can change your credit information on your Dashboard > Billing page.
We are currently going to replace Exotel as our use cases have evolved over a period of time and it can no longer be satisfied by Exotel. Hence we have decided to move to a much advanced and customisable Cloud Telephony Solution - Intalk. We would still be using Exotel for …
Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away.
They are well suited in start up in the Central Asia market, would recommend them for that area. We would also recommend their Voice over internet protocol services for mainland as well. Either the text or VOIP was a good service. The experience overall was great with them. Highly recommended.
SendBird is well suited tool for those who are having sound technical knowledge and in-hand experience of app development and APIs. One might find it difficult to integrate if not having a technical team or a good technical background. Once implemented, using or management is not an issue. Startups having low budget might find it a little bit costier.
Affordable Solution: First and foremost the platform is very much affordable for a small start-up starting their business and want to connect with their leads and serve their clients economically.
Easy to Use: Anyone can start using the platform from the Day 1. No extensive training required for it. Just integrate your phone number with the platform and solve customer problems at godspeed!
IVR Set-up- Want to have different services on a single number for your Services. Set-up IVR and make your life easy.
For cold calling and outbound callings, to a certain extend Exotel serves the purpose as mutliple DID numbers are available at our fingertips. For company which use outcalling as a form of passing information to users can benefit from the flexibility it provides. They have a recharge and use model which doesnt have certain expiry. Basic API documentation available and lesser support from their support team on this matter makes it difficult to check if the API thows any error
Initially they had chat support which was available faster. But now the chat support gets routed to a virtual agent and unable to get in touch with an actual agent. They also have no support with respect to the API's and other integrations.
Exotel was selected by us because of the following reasons: -Low set-up and maintenance cost as compared to its peers. -Prompt customer service: You want to upgrade your plan or facing any issues around the platform, Exotel team is just a call away. -Call recording Quality was also better than the peers.